Bombings target 3 key bridges in Iraq

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Bombings target 3 key bridges in Iraq

By KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writer
29 minutes ago

BAGHDAD - Suspected Sunni insurgents bombed and badly damaged
a span over the main north-south highway leading from Baghdad on
Tuesday — the third bridge attack in as many days in an apparent
campaign against key transportation arteries.

The attack occurred 35 miles south of Baghdad and just six miles
south of a bridge brought down on Sunday by what was believed
to be a suicide truck bomber. Three U.S. soldiers guarding that
bridge were killed in Sunday's blast.

The explosion at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday — not thought to be a suicide
bomb — struck a bridge linking the villages of al-Qariya al-Asriyah
and al-Rashayed in northern Babil province. No injuries were
reported.

About 60 percent of the bridge was damaged, and cars could still
pass over it via one lane, police said. But debris from the blast
fell on the main north-south expressway below, further complicating
efforts to reopen that main artery, closed after Sunday's blast
dropped masses of concrete onto the roadway.

-snip-

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070612/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_070611170744

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Also: FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, June 12 - Reuters

[MidnightRyder]

1. odd they are dropping bridges across major highways

and not the bridges of the major highways. Guess they are going to need to use those major highways when the Sunnis take over again...

[Strelnikov_]

4. It appears they where going after a checkpoint under the bridge

and the bridge was 'collateral' damage.

Blowing grade separations really does nothing to limit mobility in a desert environment. The river and canal bridges they seem to be targeting have the largest impact on mobility.

[endarkenment]

2. "an apparent campaign against key transportation arteries"

ya think?

So are they using the weapons we are giving them?

[thecrow]

3. Wait...I thought the Sunnis were "good" now....

it's so hard to keep up with a quagmire.

[Javaman]

5. The sunni's have always been our friends, we have always been at war

with eurasia.

slavery is freedom!

[Eugene]

6. U.S.-Iraqi forces raid sweets factory (45 killed or found dead Tuesday)

Source: Associated Press

U.S.-Iraqi forces raid sweets factory

By KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 3 minutes ago

BAGHDAD - U.S. and Iraqi forces on Tuesday raided a sweets
factory being used as a headquarters by suspected Sunni
insurgents in northern Iraq, which has seen a recent rise in
violence as militants have fled a nearly 4-month-old security
crackdown in Baghdad.

The discovery illustrated the challenges faced by American
and Iraqi troops trying to stop the unrelenting violence even
as militants consistently find new ways to thwart stepped-
up security measures.

-snip-

Violence persisted on Tuesday, with at least 45 people
killed or found dead, including nine soldiers and civilians
killed in clashes and drive-by shootings. Police said 15
al-Qaida militants also were killed in fighting with joint
U.S.-Iraqi forces, although the military did not immediately
confirm that.

-snip-

The U.S. and Iraqi military offered different accounts of the
raid on the sweets factory in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of
Baghdad.

The American military said a joint U.S.-Iraqi force had found
an ice cream factory in which "individuals associated with
the Islamic State of Iraq were operating from," referring to
a Sunni insurgent group, but said it had no reports of mass
explosives or chemical fertilizer being discovered and
destroyed.

-snip-

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070613/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[Amonester]

7. Wait! Were they the Sunni insurgents the bu$che junta gave

Weapons to? :crazy:

:grr: